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Re: test -nt not sane
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Sam Steingold |
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Re: test -nt not sane |
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Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:06:55 -0400 |
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> * Curtis Doty <Phegvf@TerraXrl.arg> [2011-08-10 11:53:52 -0700]:
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> They have identical mtimes (as set by touch)--i.e. the directory is
> *not* newer than the symlink--but it still outputs "yes". Why?
mtime for a symlink comes from stat(), not stat().
anything is newer than a non-existent object.
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